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wouldn't

[ wood-nt ]

  1. contraction of would not:

    I wouldn't ask her.



wouldn't

/ ˈʊəԳ /

contraction of

  1. would not
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Usage Note

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Idioms and Phrases

In addition to the idiom beginning with wouldn't , also see butter wouldn't melt ; caught dead, wouldn't be ; not (wouldn't) lift a finger . Also see under not .
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Example Sentences

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But after this week, you wouldn't say it could never happen.

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"Maybe when I was young I wouldn't give it a second thought, but I think it does change your attitude," she added.

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Banning them from the airwaves, as Carlin observed, gave them power they wouldn’t have had otherwise.

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I’m here to tell you how lucky I’ve been for half a century, why I wouldn’t change a thing if someone loaded me into a time machine, and why, even though I’m buckled into a seat on the Hindenburg, I still want to order a few more cocktails before we crash-land.

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She told Salon that, after her injury, “I was in the hospital for about five weeks, and then I had outpatient rehab for eight months. Without Medicaid, I wouldn't be where I am today.”

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